Who is Spencer Tunick?
I wouldn't know if it weren't for the wonderful documentary I saw on television.

Out of a review:
Photographer and artist Spencer Tunick is making a living out of photographing public nudity. His art involves organising thousands of naked volunteers, often into complicated shapes (or "installations"), so he can take photographs. These events occur in major cities, often early in the morning before too many people are around. A few weeks beforehand he puts the world out that he needs volunteers to get naked and lie around for a few hours. The series is called "Naked Pavement." He has been arrested numerous times, mostly in New York City.

Each Naked Pavement installation seems to be bigger than the last. In 2001 in Melbourne Australia he had 4000 people line up along the Yarra river. And in Spain 7000 people lay naked on the streets of Barcelona in June 2003. The scale of his work can be breathtaking.

Is it art or not?
When I saw some of the making ofs and the results, sometimes the results was not what I would want to have as a result. But heck, he has wonderful pictures, and the event of doing it must be as furfilling as the picture itself.
The pictures I selected here, to me are art.

Want to be a naked model? Visit his site and mail him. Mabe he'll jump continents to take your picture...

Posted on July 23, 2004
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